Forec chunk loading

A player crafts a configurable player head and places it to force the surrounding chunk to stay loaded. After a successful placement the chunk is force-loaded, with an activation message, an optional sound and optional enchanted particles. Chunk loading survives server restarts, so the head keeps working after the server is stopped and started again.

The marker is protected from non-player destruction by default, so explosions, pistons and commands restore it instead of removing it. Breaking the marker deactivates the chunk and drops a reusable marker item that can be placed again. Server owners can edit the configuration file while the server is stopped, set the sounds option to false to keep only action bar messages, and choose another skin through the head texture setting. Commands that control the mod accept a permission level from 0, open to all players, up to 4, and the custom name, lore and head ID of a marker can be copied from them.

Forec chunk loading is a server-side mod for Fabric, with files for 26.1.2 only. The mod works with vanilla clients, and the client mod is not required to be installed for it to run. Installation needs Fabric Loader and Fabric API on a dedicated server, with the JAR placed in the server's mods folder, and the server must be started once to create the config. The code is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.